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As Family Guy goes on, more and more episodes remind me of Kill the Alligator and Run--cobbled-together half-hour stretches of unfunny nonsense with no point that barely make any sense. The plot started off in a really dumb way, with Peter getting free gas for threatening to sue his son (??) who has a problem with his testicles. Nonsensical hijinks from Peter flood the rest of the first act, as he wastes the saved money in stupider and stupider ways. The rest of the episode was similarly substance-less. It all just felt so done-before.

This wouldn't be so bad if it was funny, but again we're bombarded with unfunny cutaway after unfunny celebrity bash after unfunny painfully-long sequence. And ANOTHER pointless/preachy rant about the war in Iraq? I did laugh at Stewie's reaction to Chris's Hustler, and the somewhat subtle joke in the end: "Mommy!? Daddy!? Chris!? Dog!? Brian!?" Everything else was either meh, or terrible (rape scene, ugh). Nowadays, the average FG is just as bad as KTAAR. Why couldn't this have been the show to be cancelled?

By parody I mean doing the exact same thing with nothing comedic added. (hmm..reminds me of contemporary Simpsons)

"Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. It will prescribe for every one where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say. Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance."
-Winston Churchill

Had laughs at Stewie's bottle being filled with gasoline, Aquaman sitting there in the water, the family coming in during the car song, and Stewie screaming for his mother when he woke up. The line about Peter ejaculating in space was very crude and unnecessary. Don't need to hear about Quagmire getting erections or a thirteen/fourteen-year-old boy's testicles. Basically, the male anatomy jokes need to die. Forever.

What do you think they put in the Bug Juice?
Bugs?
No they don't. Come on...shut up.

The penis gag didn't bother me as much as that Aquaman gag. I mean...a woman essentially being raped and screaming for a minute is just unpleasant to watch for me, regardless of the joke they're going for.

Although I usually don't like long non-sequiturs, the singing in the car worked for me because it actually sounded pretty darn good.

This really was awful in many ways. Terrible overlong cutaways (Aquaman rape scene, Back to the Future parody), overlong pointless song, non-sensical storyline that went nowhere, Peter being way too stupid, Stewie being out of character (and randomly getting a burger-flipping job), and a whole lot more nonsense.

Very disappointing, there can't have been more than five minutes of original, non-cutaway content in that episode. It had all my least favourite Family Guy hallmarks: hypocritical celebrity bashing (how many times have they done Robin Williams now? If you're going to bash someone over their material being repetitive and stale, you better make sure yours isn't either and their Robin Williams potshots are not fresh) cutaways that go on long after they've stopped being funny (if at all) and pointless sequences such as the family singing in the car, all things that suggest the writing staff are out of ideas and are struggling to fill 20 minutes.

I'm a big fan of "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" though so I enjoyed that reference but they milked it for too long quoting John Candy's hotel room speech. Stewie's reaction to Hustler magazine was good too . Still, with episodes like this, they're not in a position to be making fun of anyone. 2/5

"How could this have happened?
We started out like Romeo & Juliet but it ended up in tragedy..."- Milhouse Van Houten

3/5. Mainly for the Planes, Trains and Automobiles reference. Quagmire and Cleveland were also good, but standard FG today. Saw Vol. 6 today when picking up Futurama's Bender's Game and put off buying it 'til Christmas...

Every FG episode these days is a mess. Plotting is just terrible. I mean, it was never brilliant but they never went through 5 totally different plots before getting to the main strand. And basically nothing happened while Stewie was at home. They had a couple of gags then the family came home and the episode ended.